If DailyKos is subsidized by Democracy for America then there should a permanent logo up here stating that fact.

When Kos endorsed Howard as DNC chair, it shoulda been preceded with a statement that the blog is subsidized by Democracy for America.

I understood that this had been a Dean blog, but didn't know that
it was actually subsidized by the Gov.  It wouldn't have made a hill of beans one way or another - in fact, it is actually a tribute to Dean that he nurtured something that was approaching greatness.  

Does this relevation diminish Howard Dean?  In my eyes, yes.

My political priorities:  Veritas first, Country second, Howard third.

Because Kos has done such an outstanding job, this blog has
grown to the point where editorialists must hold themselves to the very highest journalistic standard.
And not let us down.

I wasn't aware that she participated in an effort to introduce legislation to enforce back-up paper ballots along with electronic voting.

Yes, Trolls, people hate Hillary.
OK, it was said - just for you, so you don't have to waste your time.

Now, here are her comments pasted direct:

Thank you for sharing your concerns regarding irregularities in the 2004 election, during which, unfortunately, some Americans were not given a fair opportunity to exercise their right to vote and have their vote counted.  I applaud both Senator Boxer and Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones for raising this issue, important to our democracy, during the Congressional

ROE V. WADE RALLY !!

Come to Washington and let the right wing know that THE LAW IS THE LAW AND WOMEN ARE NOT GOING GO BACK.

5pm    January 22, 2005 Saturday in front of the Supreme Court  First Street NE, between Maryland & East Capital.

 "Bring the ones you love and trust to decide.  Bring the ones who will inherit our rights.  Bring yourself and  Together we will turn the Tide."
For more info contact Capital City National Organization for Women (NOW) Hanah Ehrenreich: Hanah2004@yahoo.com

Sideways is a must-see.

http://www2.foxsearchlight.com/sideways/

Two guys on a roadtrip through wine country.
The casting is brilliant.  Stars Paul Giamatti from American Splendor.
(Yeah, it is a Fox Spotlight film, but what isn't owned by
Murdoch these days?)

Playing now at art houses everywhere.

Almost equally offensive is Andrea (pruneface) Mitchell hosting Hardball over the holidays.

The real outrage is the disappearance of talented liberals.  Thoughtful, intelligent Bill Press has vanished.  Deborah Norville is history.

I can almost understand why Matthews let everyone down.  He realizes that a liberal has no future in news, and gives self-survival priority over values.  In doing so, he has made himself a nonentity - but a prosperous, working nonentity.

Lou Dobbs, Jon Stewart and Keith Ohboermann are the only reasons that I can think of for continuing to subscribe to cable these days.

Wasn't someone working on getting a liberal news channel?

That being said, it was pretty funny watching a Tom Wolfe (Kool Aid Acid Test) documentary yesterday ... on FOX NEWS!

This is a diary by JamBoi.  
I am aware of the complaints about diaries that are pastes like this.   I did so only because I felt the interest would justify the bad deed.

It will almost be a relief when the ape is finally sworn in, and hopefully these things will stop emerging to torment us.

Boycotting a company for doing nothing more than exercising the freedom to give to its party of choice is anti-American.

This is about the 5th time buyblue has been a recommended diary in the past few weeks.

The fissures that you are creating will cost democrats job and business opportunities not to mention donations.

Tomorrow across the country, activists are holding rallys in every state capital.  They are protesting election fraud.

The rallys will be poorly attended because most of you don't know about them.

Even though two diaries were posted, they never made it to the recommended list, and slipped away within minutes.

The moronic pile of a horseshit diary from buyblue recycles itself endlessly as a runaway cancer.

I'm convinced that this "boycott movement" is a Repug maneuver.  
(See "Recommended Diary" http://www.dailykos.com/user/ignignokt )

It advocates that we blindly boycott all of the companies that according to websites, donate more to Republicans than democrats.

Checking out the author's URL, he lists the companies he's personally boycotting, and the companies that he's patronizing.

At the top of his "patronize" list is none other than Adobe.

Several months before the dem primaries, Adobe sponsored an extreme right-wing show ala Fox News.   It aired on MSNBC.

On the shows that I saw, both the moderator AND all guests were right wing.  They sat around mercilessly trashing and belittling the democrat candidates.

One more observation:

Someone in the boycott dairy commented that they would boycott Apple (!) and would not boycott Microsoft.

This is because according to this website, Microsoft gives evenly 50% democrats and 50% republicans.
Whereas Apple donated 78% republican.

Too many now appeal to the lowest denominator of
freshman wanna-be radical.

And I'm starting to suspect some are even Troll
generated.

As an aside, there is clearly is a Troll invasion.

Too many posts are hyper dumb and have a Freeper
smell.

I hope that Kos is having a good, well-earned vacation.
And hurries back.

A recommended diary condones boycotting
companies because of party affiliation.

If this caught on, it would be dangerous for any Democrat in
the business sector to remain associated with
the party.

It would be dangerous for any employee working
for a boycotted company to remain associated
with the party.

I would feel particularly sorry for the arts organizations
that depend on corporate funding.  And most are.

Half of my esteemed clients are Republican.
They are nice people, know my views, and to
their credit have not dropped me for one of their
own.

Tinfoil hatters, Freepers.  all make it dangerous
for any rational individual to have party affiliation.

Yes, let's take punitive measures against companies
for their party affiliation.

Why not?

Well, last I heard punitive measures against people (or companies) for supporting the party of choice was kind of unAmerican.

We didn't lose because corporations gave money
to Bush.  We raised plenty of money.

We lost because the Republicans are savvy
in publicity and mass communication.  
Our TV advertising was amateurish and scattershot.

Working people voted for Bush because we failed
to reach them effectively.

A campaign against companies should be initiated if they are actively doing something bad - not for exercising their right to support their party of choice.

Or if there is evidence that the Republican majority is out to hurt blue companies.

What ever happened to Bev?

Yesterday, it was Berkley.  Today, no follow-up.  Nada.  

This election fraud roller coaster seems to be
made out of tinfoil.

Is Kerry a play-it-safe Ostrich or is he a lot smarter
than the rest of us.  Are we being strung along
with fantasies?

Back to realworld work.

I was just stunned to find this story at the msnbc website:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6502368/

I'm glad to read that the new democratic focus is on religion.
We'll need plenty of it where this earth is headed.

Combs had to come in as the voice of reason and remind the
old coot that the democratic party
has a big umbrella.

He seems still steeped in bile about getting torn up in the primaries.  
Without a doubt, he feels that
his cream-of-wheat points of view would have won him the presidency.
He would never have been torn up by the Bush smear machine.

Up until this point, I had always liked the guy.
Today he has proven himself a bigot, a divider and red.

After the election, it was rumored that the repubs were going
into civil war mode.

If the Lieberman brand of right wing extremism spreads
through the democratic party, there won't be
a lot of fighting.  There will be fewer people calling themselves
democrats.

Harry Reid, new senate minority leader is an opponent of abortion.

Why are we caving to the right wing?  Why do we now have a spokesman out of sync with the majority of the party?

Is Nader right?   There is no difference between parties.  We're only more spineless?

Clearly, this an attempt to appease the extreme right. ("we'll save the party by showing we aren't really liberal")  And not only will this fail, but it stands to divide the party.

I  will not remain a democrat if it no longer stads for protecting women's rights.

And I am outraged that democrats consider women's rights the first right they can toss.

The democrats lost not because of "values" but because of their putrid, outdated marketing and campaign strategy.

Once they start diluting what the party stands for, they are history.

Be sure to check out the gallery.

Now to make this longer than a sentence so the diary doesn't get bounced.  Tucker doesn't wear a bowtie on this show.  He looks a little older too.  I suspect that after all these years his debates with democrats have made him a closet democrat.  There's a "democat" in the gallery named Tucker.  It makes you wonder.

The claim is that it is "too violent" and has "foul language."
It's actually pretty mild for a war film.

Within the last few weeks another Amblin animation
series was dropped by a network.

I wonder if Amblin is marked by Rove or wingnuts.

For some reason, I'm getting a notice saying that the
above is a one-sentence diary.  I counted four.
Hopefully this will flesh it out a bit.  I think that it's
rather important to get the word out so that there
is an audience for this worthy film.

But I think that we should still give Kerry
thanks for working his royal ass off for us
in this campaign.

Even though Dean was my original choice,
I grew to like and respect Kerry.  He's decent
and really wanted to run an upbeat campaign.

His speaking manner improved 200 percent.

His reward?  Being ridiculed, slimed and dunked in
a boiling tar vat of smears.

What man on this planet would want to run
against the mafia of rat turds?

The only weakness in the Kerry campaign was in the
marketing - too many amateurish commercials.
Any ad person will tell you, the quality of the
product doesn't count.  It's all in the hype.  
We need to build a strong, professional propaganda
machine - ala Rove.

Over the year, JKF developed into an outstanding candidate
and would have made a great president.